Hey guys, this is my second fic, my first for Jak and Daxter. I have a plan set out for this fic and am going to update every couple of days. I would extremely appreciate reviews but I do not want any flames though will accept constructive criticism and anything else that will help me make this fic better.
This is a darker version of the Jak and Daxter adventures but it starts from Jak 2 and goes through Jak 3 and may go further. I have alot of ideas for this involving the different character involvements and couplings, a few of these ideas, people might not like but I'm pretty sure they haven't been done very often so I'm giving it a go, thanks in advance and please review
Prologue
"For every age there is a time of trial" the old Sage walked towards his hut.
"The rocks faced such a fire before they were the strength beneath our feet" he retells of a great force that disappeared long ago.
"The plants braved vast winds before the roots gave us life" he approaches the youths that stand before him.
"As a sage of considerable years, I have only known of one such ordeal" he pauses for a moment before continuing, "Yet the hero it created was a champion for all time!" he was talking about the very teen in front of him yet he would have to go through a great pain before he found out. It was at this time that he noticed something in the boy that he had not noticed before. So small and simple yet clear for the eye to see, what he witnessed infront of him was a strange aura coming from the young hero. It was likely just the exposure to Eco that he had collected it in his body but there was something dark about it that he had not noticed until this moment. 'Bah, its probably nothing, we must continue'.
Samos' POV
"Today's the big day Jak, I hope you are prepared... for whatever happens" the Sage looks the boy straight in the eye but the aura is no longer present. 'Hmph, thought so, your older than you think Samos if your starting to see things'.
"I think I've figured out most of this machine, it is surprisingly easy, its almost as if it was made for me to understand" I look at my daughter my has she grown, she is looking at Jak. I know she is taking with him, it is obvious but I do hope his changing does not hurt her. She continues "I just hope we didn't break anything moving it here to the lab".
"Easy for you to say! We did all the heavy lifting!" Daxter announces while jumping into the machine and attempting to push one of the buttons "Daxter! Don't touch anything!" 'That annoying rat, he always does this. It was really Jak that had to carry everything but Daxter always takes the credit even when they were young boys. When myself and Jak first arrived here I met with the local sages and asked if they could hide the machine not knowing Gol would later betray us, not that it matters now this is the point where all our lives change and we must make sure that we perform in way the other us did when they sent me and Jak here'. "Though the Prcursors vanished long ago the artefacts they left behind can still do great harm" I announced.
"Or great good! If you figure out how to use them" my daughter, always wanting to help.
"I've had some experience with such things. I know you you can make it work" I say to Jak. He looks at the machines for a moment then he touches the device labelled the 'Heart of Mar'. The time map activates getting my daughters attention, "Interesting... it appears to be reading some preset coordinates...".
Suddenly the Rift Gate shifts and brakes away from the planks holding it steady. The Rift Rider too activates and proceeds to energize with the Rift Gate.
"Wow! Look at that!" All of a sudden small creatures begin to fly out.
"Finally! The last Rift Gate has been opened!" a deep, evil voice announces through the Gate.
More and more creatures pour out "Aaaagghh!! Waht are those things?!" Daxter screams.
"So this is how it happened..." I have always wondered how it came to be, now I have my answer.
Suddenly a huge creature pokes its head through the Gate revealing it huge upper body. "You can not hide from me, boy!" it roars.
"Do something, Jak!" my daughter cries, 'everyone always relies on Jak to do something. I wonder how long it will be before he realises this, I wonder what he will do. Sadly I know of the troubles he must soon go through, I do pity him and feel sorrow for the fact that I cannot warn him'.
"What's this do? or that? How 'bout this one! Quick everybody push all the buttons!" the small rodent screams, until Jak slams his fist against the ignition, and suddenly the machine jolts forward just missing the creature and into the Rift Gate.
"What was that thing?!" Keira shouts above the noise of the engines.
"Hang on everyone!" I shout as the machine begins to tremble.
"YYAAAAAAHHHHH! I want off this thing!!!!!" Daxter yelled.
"AAAAHHHHH" Kiera screams just as a powerful bolt of energy swipes the Rift Rider and blows up sending us all in different directions.
"Find yourself Jak" were my last word to the boy, 'I do hope he will be okay, just because inour past he manages a great deal to save the world, it could still happen different'. That was my last thought before the light faded and a familiar site was before my eyes, 'I am home'.
I landed in the streets without to much trouble, I had landed in the water slums and I began to look around to get my bearings until I saw a great explosio in the sky and an object heading straight for me. I ducked down as it flew past my head and crashed into a building behind me. I walked over to the smoking crater when I heard a familiar voice, "That's the last time I ever, EVER! Touch any stupid Precursor crap!" My thoughts ran wild 'This can't be, why has this happened, he is not suposed to be here... I'm sure of it'.
"Daxter?" I ask.
"Oh great, first we get in that stupid machine, then we get attacked by big, tall and ugly, then we get blown up, I fly into someones crappy excuse for a house and to top it all off I'm rescued by old green, could this day get any worse?" just as those words exited the small rodents mouth a Krimzon Guard troop carrier fly's past and slows down wile lowering its backdoor to let out its heavily armed cargo.
"I had to ask, what the hell do we do now?" Daxter asked while hiding behind Samos.
"I think we should move from this area Daxter, I know somewhere that we can go, come" I say while quickly heading towards the slums.
"Wait, we've never been here before how do you.." he was about to finish when he was cut off by Samos, "Nevermind I will explain to you later now we must leave!" at this they bot quickened their pace looking for a place to hide.
Jak's POV
The light tunnel collapses and I am open to the new view in front of me as I hurtle towards a very much built up area. My landing doesn't hurt as much as I thought it would and I manage to stand and look around at my settings. There are many people walking around, much more than I've seen in one place before. They are all wearing strange and different clothes and as I look down from the strange walk way I am on, I notice there are many queues of what look to be zoomers only much more advanced and some seem to even be able to hold more than one person. 'What is this place, I must along way from Sandover, I....' but my thoughts are interrupted when I hear lots of commotion.
"There he is, move in!" I hear from a large group of men in red armour heading towards me. "Surrender!" one of them orders as they all point their rifles at me. 'Me? but what have I done?' I thought as one of them steps towards me, I notice that he is dressed much differently from the rest of them, it looked like he was wearing an odd racing uniform and a strange mask on his head.
"We've been waitng for you!" he says to me before one of, I presume soldiers steps forward and raises the butt of his gun, that was the last thing I saw before being knocked unconscious.
I later woke up strapped to a steel table. I noticed that I was wearing strange clothes and that the room around me was huge and had many things in it. I look up to see a pillar hanging over me, attached to it were many sets of what looked like extremely sharp needles. I inwardly gulped. 'Wear am I?'. I then looked infront of me over to the far wall where I saw a large numbers of computers beeping and flashing.
Suddenly the large doors to the left of the computers and strange little portal opened revealing a very tall, heavily-built man with metal covering half his face and also carrying a huge sword on his belt and 'I recognise that other guy, he's the one that captured me' it was the same guy in the racing outfit and orange hair. They were both walking towards me.
"Well, well we are finally graced with your presence" the large man addressed me. "It took you long enough Erol, I was beginning to worry, now that you have found our boy here there is a chance that the Dark Warrior Program can now be a success" he turned his back to me so I looked at the one now known as 'Erol'. He was looking at the others back obviously not happy that he was getting made fun of in front of me.
"Yes my lord, Baron" replied Erol.
"Shall I start the procedure?" he asked, while pointing at me.
"Yes, proceed, we don't know how long this will take" the 'Baron' paused then looked at me "but once we are done you will be just what we need" he nodded at Erol.
From here Erol appeared to climb down some stepa to a floor just below me, all I could see was the top of his head and him doing something, then suddenly the machine above me started to move and a strange metallic voice could be heard coming from it.
"Subject 219, procedure 1, Dark Eco injection cycle initiating" its steely voice said then what looked like purple electricity started to crackle from the ends of the needles as they neared my body. 'Dark Eco, injection, subject 219? what is happening?' was the last thing I thought before I felt searing hot energy begin to burn through my body.
"AAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH" I screamed. It was so painful it felt like I was being held above a burning fire that was hotter than the sun except all over my body at the same time. Wave after wave pulsed through me, growing stronger and stronger as the seconds go by. 'How long am I going to have to suffer like this, how long as it been, it feels like eternity'.
NORMAL POV
"Crank it up to full power" the Baron shouted.
"But my lord, this is his first injection, even men stronger than him cannot take that much after many injections" Erol pointed out.
"If this boy is as special as I have been told then he will survive, now do it!" Baron ordered.
"As you wish" Erol said before turning all the gauges on the control panel to full intensifying the injection beam.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH" Jak screamed at the top of his lungs as the pain he was going through strenghed ten fold. His body was in so much pain that it knocked him out so now his unconscious body was free to be experimented on.
"Is he dead" the Baron asked.
"No my lord, he is merely unconscious from the pressure his body is being put under" Erol answered.
"Good, finish here then put him in his cell, then get back to your duties" the Baron left without another word.
"Yes sir" Erol complied then waited until the injection was over, he dragged Jak into one of the cells adjacent of the injection pedestal. He throw the limp body in and commanded a bot to bring some gruel for the prisoner later on, then left with a smirk on his face knowing the boy had a long painful future ahead of him.
So... what do you think so far? I'm pretty happy with that and would like to know what you think, the next chapter will be posted in a couple of days so please review and tell me if its good or bad.
'Taka' Fallen Knight